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by dusted 1y ago
on the flipside, while I don't take pictures all the time, I do feel like I remember the situations in which I took pictures better.. There are two sides to this: The situation was out of the ordinary to begin with, which is why the pi
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by dusted 1y ago
Yep, this is why I dropped out.
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by dusted 1y ago
Yeah, I dropped my apps from Play, couldn't find a way to avoid putting my personal address on there.. fuck that, I'm making something for free, and they force me to dox myself for it? Nah, I'm good.
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by dusted 1y ago
Silly lisp-inspired language, but it turned into something different as I started asking myself more and more questions, and now it's more of a model for computation that tries to think about computers as different from looms (aka harw
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by dusted 1y ago
I really can't remember if it was this one, I'll have to check if I saved the link somewhere at work.. but maybe it was Hyrum's law https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
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by dusted 1y ago
they don't need to, you can have monochrome pixels too, like those on monochrome displays)
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by dusted 1y ago
I think the author forgets that pixels inherently have both width and height, a single pixel, is inherently a 2 dimensional entity, whereas the meter is a purely one dimensional concept. You don't usually talk about whether your meters
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by dusted 1y ago
> all these findings prove that the bug is NOT an issue with Windows 11 24H2, as things like the way the stack is used by internal WinAPI functions are not contractual and they may change at any time, with no prior notice. This reminds m
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by dusted 1y ago
Photography is a hobby of mine, and this is definitely another situation where I feel this influence strongly as well!
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by dusted 1y ago
An interesting article, of course, it primed me, so when I saw the picture, with the tree, saw, axe and hammer, I thought, hmm, actually. The hammer stands out.. because there's a relationship between the tree, saw and axe, in that you
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by dusted 1y ago
I remember this happening a lot when I was a child and teenager, mainly during and shortly after LAN parties, where we'd spend one or two entire days almost exclusively inside one or two virtual environments (like Action Quake or later
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by dusted 1y ago
There's also an excellent tutorial from LLVM, it got me started, I got some ideas and didn't want to be too influenced by "the right way", so I stopped somewhere mid tokenizer.. But I have a turing complete, interpreted
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by dusted 1y ago
Interesting, it'd be neat if it showed the one you missed.. I had 19 of 20 correct, but I don't know which one I got wrong.. and my wife tells me I'm terrible with colors because I insist most turquoise are greener than they&
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by dusted 1y ago
There has been many, many stories of Microsoft doing just that, invite for some talk, learn what they need to know and then do it their way. It's not a new practice, and it's not exclusive to Microsoft either, it's something
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by dusted 1y ago
I loved Moomins as a kid, and was so surprised when I talked with my wife about it, she thought they were so scary and "off" feeling. I'm watching them now with our son, and I guess I was just born with a strong appreciation
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by dusted 1y ago
It would seem at some point that even manufacturers of contemporary turntables forgot (or just don't care) about this, I've seen multiple turn tables with trimming potentiometers, lacking the speed indicator and strobe, and I&#x27
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Tell HN: They fucked up VSCode now?
2 points by dusted 2y ago|2 comments
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by dusted 2y ago
This is excellent news. I'm kind of surprised. I suppose it could also mean that anything else AI generated can't be copyrighted ? So corps generating code and content with AI hopefully can't copyright that? (of course they c
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by dusted 2y ago
They are there own damn icons! And they should be! They always were. It's now an option that you need to enable.
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by dusted 2y ago
Yeah, I don't buy this "we just hid the nice way behind an option" explaination, I've been stung by that too many times to ignore it.. It means "this gonna get dead" and the argument will be "oh, nobody us
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by dusted 2y ago
> Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage. I'm scared, they already started messing with the toolbox stuff (putting multiple icons under the same button and then changing the icons too to make it entirely impossibl
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by dusted 2y ago
That's neat.
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by dusted 2y ago
I did the same thing a long time ago, though I cant brag about using as long a list of frameworks, source is https://github.com/DusteDdk/fileswithafriend so you can host it youself, announcement post and link to site w
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by dusted 2y ago
Anyone remember fazed.org (slogan: until the weekend heals us) ? Absolutely loved that site, in a way, it was similar to hn in design and "random interesting stuff" type of content.. For me, what killed it was the now long dead &q
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Show HN: SDL-Ball Ported for the Web(midzer.de)
2 points by dusted 2y ago|0 comments
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by dusted 2y ago
How is it that the preview-videos showing how fast it is, is still slower at loading small image than it is for my old desktop to START feh AND display the window and image ?
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by dusted 2y ago
This is quite disgusting, but at least they don't try to hide the evil behind some positive spin (which honestly, is even more repulsive). I especially like how they portray the managers complete lack of empathy for the situation of th
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by dusted 2y ago
that's fair, the study didn't convince me it was better, it just prompted me to switch back to white, because, actually, I don't know, and then I found that _if_ it made any difference, it was probably positive, but, even tho
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by dusted 2y ago
Yeah, I remember back when I was a cringy teenager and bought into all the propaganda about why darkmode was better for eyes and whatnot, so much stuff.. So I spent 15 years or so with darkmode, untile one day, i read somewhere that the evi
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by dusted 2y ago
I write my blog in regular old plaintext files, I have a script that adds the header text to a file named with todays date and opens it in VIM. I wrote a small script that renders the file in HTML and CSS, does code highlight and so on, but

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